
# example for connecting to a PostgreSQL server: db.connect driver=pg database="host=myserver.itc.it,dbname=mydb" db.login user=myname pass=secret db.connect -p db.tables -p
echo "
ALTER TABLE mytable ADD ID integer;
CREATE SEQUENCE mytable_seq;
UPDATE mytabe SET ID = nextval('mytable_seq');
DROP SEQUENCE mytable_seq;
" | db.execute
\h copy COPY t1 FROM 'filename' USING DELIMITERS ',';
CREATE TABLE test
(
id serial NOT NULL,
mytime timestamp DEFAULT now(),
text varchar,
wkb_geometry geometry,
CONSTRAINT test_pkey PRIMARY KEY (id)
) WITHOUT OIDS;
# insert value
INSERT INTO test (text, wkb_geometry)
VALUES ('Name',geometryFromText('POLYGON((600000 200000,650000
200000,650000 250000,600000 250000,600000 200000))',-1));
# register geometry column
select AddGeometryColumn ('postgis', 'test', 'geometry', -1, 'GEOMETRY', 2);
v.in.ogr dsn="PG:host=localhost dbname=postgis user=neteler" layer=test \
output=test type=boundary,centroid
v.db.select test
v.info -t test
Book: PostgreSQL:
Introduction and Concepts by Bruce Momjian
PostgreSQL Documentation
PostgreSQL Technical Documentation
GDAL/OGR PostgreSQL driver documentation
MapServer Wiki
Last changed: $Date: 2007/11/24 13:19:00 $